For centuries, discrimination, sexism and inequity have plagued STEM fields and has hindered many innovative spaces. Despite these issues, women have remained in the forefront of scientific progress. Women have achieved or surpassed equivalence with men in most academic fields, yet continue to be outnumbered in many STEM areas. I have learned communication is the [...]Read Full Article →

Are you wondering which career path fits you the best? Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee (HGSAC) aims to help you figure it out by presenting the choices of our alumni. Dr. Chen Wang’s experience will help you get an overall idea of the career path into a pharmaceutical company. Pharmaceutical industry is a hot area [...]Read Full Article →

As part of the HGSAC, we love honoring our alumni and keeping up with their successes! Alumni stories inspire students by giving them career path ideas. As part of this spotlight series, I asked one of our Penn State alums to answer some questions about her career journey up until this point. Meet Dr. Cheri [...]Read Full Article →

Date of seminar at Penn State: 3/28/16 HGSAC career seminar series: “My Path to Becoming a Medical Science Liaison: A Journey from Academia to Biotech to Pharma” Meet Dr. Josh Yoder. He obtained a B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Penn State in 2000. His former undergraduate advisor was Dr. Craig E. [...]Read Full Article →

Graduate school is quite challenging already. As an international student, you might be faced with additional challenges in locating a job after graduation. To help navigate you through this process, the Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee (HGSAC) invited Dr. Wenhua Yu, who graduated in 2010 with a Ph.D in Genetics, for a seminar on Jan.29, [...]Read Full Article →

Have you ever wondered about a career in academia? Even though we see our supervisors serving as faculty everyday, do you really know what to expect and how to succeed in this field? The Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee aims to navigate you through the uncertainty. Today we present an interview from Professor of Biochemistry [...]Read Full Article →

In graduate school you have to be your own advocate; you have to be able to ‘mentor yourself’ to get what you want out of your degree. Dr. Carolee Bull, who recently joined the Penn State family as head of the Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology department, led a little [...]Read Full Article →

If you’re a Huck graduate student reading this post, then you may have seem some e-mails floating around over the last couple of weeks regarding participation in the Huck Graduate Student Assessment System. Whether you have heard about this assessment system before reading this blog post or not, you may be thinking… what is this [...]Read Full Article →

Hoping to learn more about careers post graduation? Interested in building your professional skills? The Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee (HGSAC) aims to provide students with professional development opportunities and to promote exposure to all science careers, inside and outside of academia. We are a new organization that also collaborates extensively with other student organizations. A few [...]Read Full Article →

Navigating through grad school can be a daunting process in itself. While you might find yourself busy with your research projects and teaching duties, making time to figure out how to make the best of your time as a graduate student, and how to make yourself an ideal candidate for your future career, is essential. [...]Read Full Article →